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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Tokyo, November 21 (Xinhua) — Japan's Nihon Hidanke Association, an association representing atomic bomb victims, issued a statement on Thursday sharply condemning Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's attempt to revise the country's three non-nuclear principles, local media reported.
In 2024, the organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to create a nuclear-weapon-free world. The association's statement stated that it "strongly protests the reversal" of Japan's long-standing position of refraining from possessing, producing, or importing nuclear weapons into Japan, as well as the current administration's revision of non-nuclear principles, Kyodo News reports.
The organization stressed that measures to eliminate nuclear weapons must not be delayed, adding that the survivors of the atomic bombing "cannot allow nuclear weapons to be brought into Japan or the country to become a base for nuclear war or a target for nuclear attacks."
The group sent a statement to S. Takaichi calling on the government to comply with the three non-nuclear principles and enshrine them in legislation.
The Three Principles of Non-Nuclear Policy were first proclaimed in the Japanese Diet in 1967 by then-Prime Minister Eisaku Sato and were considered a national credo. The National Security Strategy, one of three security documents approved by the government in 2022, states: "The basic policy of adhering to the Three Principles will remain unchanged in the future."
However, Kyodo News recently reported, citing government sources, that S. Takaichi is considering revising the ban on the import of nuclear weapons into Japan, which is causing serious concern in the country. –0–
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